Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Here's my great truth, my crazy paradoxical truth: I've been so busy lately, so busy doing book-ish things---going to the Texas Book Festival...preparing for an upcoming book fair...getting everything done for our school's author visit...the thirty-two classes I see each week as a school librarian...frantically trying to locate the hundred books I'll be reading for the Cybils---that I have not had time to blog or review books or even read.

Let me say that again, so I can really think about it:

I have not had time to blog or review books or even read.

And why?

Because I have been too busy doing book-ish things.

Inspiration. I need inspiration. Mother Teresa? Can you advise me?

“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.” ― Mother Teresa

Yes, of course. True, if not exactly inspiring. I think I need a little more, Mother Teresa.

"The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway."― Mother Teresa

Okay. I will try. Anything else to add?

"We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love."― Mother Teresa

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Book Journey offers a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling BJ how many you visited.

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

The Trick is to Keep Breathing

Depression.

It just goes on and on.

These are the scary books I've read.

What about you?

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
A son spontaneously forms a two-person book club
with his dying mother.

One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp

"Eucharisteo"

What I Got in the Mail Last Week

The Spindlers by Lauren Oliver

Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

by Jim Al-Khalili

What are you reading today?!

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Book Journey offers a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling BJ how many you visited.

Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America;

Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia;

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before;

One for the Road

Polly Evans

It's Not About the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels;

Fried Eggs with Chopsticks;

On a Hoof and a Prayer

George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia;

Down and Out in Paris;

Burmese Days

Pico Iyer

The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto;

Video Night in Kathmandu

Colin Thubron

The Lost Heart of Asia;

In Siberia;

Shadow of the Silk Road

Mark Twain

Roughing It;

The Innocents Abroad

I know I'm leaving people out.

Who are your favorite travel writers?

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Book Journey offers a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling BJ how many you visited.